In response to FDA's request for information on the labeling of (future) food products derived from cell-cultured seafood, CSPI submitted this comment on March 8, 2021.
In CSPI's view, when cell-cultured seafood products are ready for their food safety assessment at FDA, the agency, with stakeholder input, should identify material differences from traditional products and then make consumers aware of those differences on the product label. The comment lays out several potential material differences that would be of interest to consumers.
It’s daunting to think about the damage we’re doing to our planet, and the harm it will do to our own health.
But as our interview with Harvard’s Sam Myers (see "There is No Planet B") shows, solutions do exist. Some, like reducing carbon emissions from vehicles and power plants, are well known; others are less recognized. For example, livestock accounted for an estimated 15 percent of human-induced worldwide greenhouse gas emissions in 2005.
